Celebrate 2020! Stone Carving Workshop with Master Tibetan Carver, Sampa Lhundup and Alexandra Morosco

SEATTLE at Marenakos Rock Center: February 8-9, 2020* WHIDBEY ISLAND at MFA Studio: February 22-23, 2020

A Tibetan Tradition, Written in Stone… Viewing the written form of the , “”, is said to have the effect of invoking powerful attention and blessings that embody compassion. It is common for Tibetan

compassion placed where it could be viewed and celebrated daily. Losarpeople is to Tibetan have a stone,New Year, plaque, Feb or24-26, script 2020. reflecting this value of Our two-day workshops will offer one or two days of instruction, stone, use of hand tools, or new tools available for purchase, basic safety equipment as needed and expertise to assist you in making your own mani stone, beside Tibetan carver, Sampa Lhundup and sculptor Alexandra Morosco. The workshops will be held at Marenakos Rock Center and on Whidbey Island at Alexandra’s home & studio. Previous students or more advanced carvers will be guided to explore a more complex Tibetan design, or Tibetan Endless Knot.

In addition to workshop necessities, lunch, tea and snacks will be offered both days with traditional Tibetan momo’s to celebrate the new year! No prior carving experience is necessary. Further details sent upon registration. Registration is limited to 16 at Marenakos and 6 for the Whidbey workshop. Participants can come one day or both, $150/day or $275 for two days. Further details found on registration page online. To carve beside a master like Sampa is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Come explore the beauty and joy of Tibetan culture through the meditative process of carving a in stone. * NWSSA members: Note! Feb 8 is the annual NWSSA Winter Gathering! Participating Members will receive a special gift!

Your Instructors & Hosts…

Sampa Lhundup is a third-generation, traditionally-trained Tibetan carver whose work has been recognized by the Dalai and other highly-ranked Tibetan . He was born to a nomadic family in Tibet in 1972, and at the age of 21 Sampa escaped Tibet, and arrived in Dharamsala, , in 1993. There, he completed six years of formal training (study and apprenticeship) through

Government in Exile. Establishing himself as a renown carver inthe Dharamsala, Shachun Woodcraft Sampa came Center to affiliatedthe United with States the in Tibetan 2011 via a Buddhist community in Rochester, NY where a traditional carver was needed. Today, He is currently seeking political asylum, unable to return to his home in Tibet, due to Chinese occupation or return to India due to complex international legal restraints. Throughout his life, he has continued carving in stone and wood in devotion in order to keep his Tibetan culture alive. Sampa blesses all those who are fortunate enough to meet or work beside him. On Whidbey, Sampa carved all of the architectural details on the newly built and consecrated Temple on Whidbey Island, Phagtsok Gedun Choling, which serves as Dza Kilung ’s seat in the West. For more on Sampa, please visit www.tibetanwoodcarver.com

Alexandra Morosco has been working as a professional stone

sculpturesculptor for in overCalifornia twenty-five where yearsshe was and born has livedand raised. and worked She focuses on carvingWhidbey custom Island commissionedsince 2003. Morosco works studiedfor private fine homes art and and organizations that are described as ‘stories in stone’, most often

currently is focused on creating hand-carved memorials or Legacy Stonesin the classical in a collaborative figurative process or representational of healing; journeying tradition. withAlexandra her clients “from Loss to Gift”. In addition to creating her own personal sculptures and commissioned works, she teaches stone carving workshops both in the US and in Ireland and also partners with Marenakos Rock Center in Issaquah, Washington as the director of educational events. For more on Alexandra, visit: www.moroscofinearts.com and www.Legacy-Sculpture.com.

contact, registration and further information: Alexandra Morosco [email protected] 360.969.9612 (mobile/text) www.moroscofinearts.com/workshops/